Recent Advances in Registration Methods for MRI-TRUS Fusion Image-Guided Interventions of Prostate
Yongde Zhang, Jintao Bi, Weixi Zhang, Haiyan Du, Yongsheng Xu · Recent Patents on Engineering · 2017
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) has become a serious threat to the health of men in the world. Combining the advantages of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate is a hot research topic in recent years and image registration is an important step in image fusion. Keywords: Image registration, MRI, TRUS, prostate intervention, brachy therapy, anatomic landmarks.